About us

This blog is curated by indigenous people to showcase indigenous art, fashion and design. Indigenous artists and designers are still awfully underrepresented in the fashion, art and design business today, and often get passed by in favour of appropriative knock-offs by customers looking for “native” or “indigenous” art to wear or use.

To put it simply, this space is for celebrating and appreciating indigenous artists’ flair, talent and work.

Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive or all-inclusive catalogue of indigenous art. At the moment we are only two people from two different specific communities and we do not know everything or everyone! We aim for this blog to be as inclusive as possible, however, and therefore encourage any indigenous artist out there to drop by and submit their work! We want your shameless self-promotion, right here!

Other things you might want to read:

Our cultural appropriation tag — While this blog is not about cultural appropriation, for a bunch of reasons this is an ever-pertinent topic to indigenous creators. Please read!

How to Spot Authentic Native American Fashion - US edition

And on a different note, a brief PSA to our non-indigenous readers:

Indigenous people still face daunting levels of racism and marginalization in all walks of life and levels of society, and generally we have to fight harder than most for our cultures, languages, homes, jobs and prospects. Many of us the artists presented here hail from endangered cultures, and by featuring their work we hope to add a bit to the space and visibility for their people as well.

We encourage our followers to respect this context and refrain from presenting these artists and works in fetishizing, demeaning, or decontextualizing ways. Please do not remove tags or credits from posts when you reblog. The best way for a non-indigenous person to support indigenous artists is by purchasing their work, passing on the message, and/or otherwise  letting all others know what kind of talent we have. Drawing up a copy to submit to Threadless or something is NOT appreciation or celebration of indigenous art; it’s THEFT, and will be dealt with as such.

It should be obvious to any reader than we do not in any way, shape or form support, accept or condone cultural appropriation or fetishization. See our cultural appropriation tag (linked above) for a more detailed explanation of our stance on this subject and links to outside resources.

Also note: Use of this blog’s original content for any research purposes is forbidden without our express permission. Make use of the ask function if you’d like to collaborate with us in any such projects.

We also claim no copyright over the works presented on our blog. If you see your work featured and would like it to be removed or edited, please drop us an ask and we’ll be right on it!

And once again we encourage any indigenous artist to submit their work! Keep being awesome!